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Types of feedback to optimise performance

I can identify and use different types of feedback to improve performance.

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Types of feedback to optimise performance

I can identify and use different types of feedback to improve performance.

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Key learning points

  1. Intrinsic feedback comes from the performer's own senses and feelings.
  2. Extrinsic feedback comes from external sources like coaches or peers.
  3. Concurrent feeback is given during the performance.
  4. Terminal feedback is given at the end of a performance.
  5. Effective feedback depends on multiple situational factors.

Keywords

  • Feedback - information received during or after a performance about the performance

  • Intrinsic feedback - information received from the performer's senses

  • Extrinsic feedback - information received from outside of the performer, e.g. from a coach

  • Concurrent feedback - feedback provided during a performance

  • Terminal feedback - feedback provided after a performance

Common misconception

Types of feedback are often confused with types of guidance from the previous lesson.

Ensure students can differentiate between guidance being information needed to understand how to perform a skill, and feedback being information about how well it is being performed.


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GCSE PE practical lessons offer useful opportunities to reflect on effective feedback and revisit the keywords.
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6 Questions

Q1.
When a teacher writes suggestions on your work about how you might improve it, we say that they are giving you ...
Correct answer: feedback
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Q2.
Which type of guidance is often combined with verbal guidance to deliver a demonstration to a group of learners?
Correct answer: visual
manual
mechanical
vision
Q3.
The words exit, exhale and export all begin with the prefix ex-. What do these words have in common?
Correct answer: they all mean something is going out
they all mean something is coming in
they all mean something is staying where it is
Q4.
Where might the following receive feedback from?
Correct Answer:a dancer finishing a performance,the audience clapping
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the audience clapping

Correct Answer:a football player after making a foul,the referee
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the referee

Correct Answer:a child learning to swim,the child's parents/guardians encouraging them
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the child's parents/guardians encouraging them

Correct Answer:a runner training alone,themselves
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themselves

Q5.
Which of these would best define feedback?
information received before a performance to help prepare you
Correct answer: information received during or after a performance about the performance
a method to convey information to a performer to aid skill learning
Q6.
Guidance which involves a coach supporting the learner's movement physically with their hands is called guidance.
Correct Answer: manual

6 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following are types of feedback?
manual
Correct answer: concurrent
Correct answer: extrinsic
visual
mechanical
Q2.
Match the keyword to the definition.
Correct Answer:intrinsic feedback,information received from the performer's senses
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information received from the performer's senses

Correct Answer:extrinsic feedback,information received from outside of the performer e.g. from a coach
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information received from outside of the performer e.g. from a coach

Correct Answer:concurrent feedback,feedback provided during a performance
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feedback provided during a performance

Correct Answer:terminal feedback,feedback provided after a performance
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feedback provided after a performance

Q3.
Which of the following might be sources of extrinsic feedback?
Correct answer: spectators
Correct answer: your team captain
yourself
Correct answer: a referee
Q4.
Match the statements.
Correct Answer:intrinsic and concurrent,stopping yourself from losing balance on your bicycle
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stopping yourself from losing balance on your bicycle

Correct Answer:extrinsic and concurrent,your coach giving you split times as you run the 5000m
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your coach giving you split times as you run the 5000m

Correct Answer:intrinsic and terminal,you think back over your performance later that day by yourself
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you think back over your performance later that day by yourself

Correct Answer:extrinsic and terminal,you and your teammates discuss your previous performance during dinner
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you and your teammates discuss your previous performance during dinner

Q5.
What type of feedback does a beginner rely on the most?
Correct Answer: extrinsic
Q6.
Activities which are quick and explosive, such as the shot putt, do not allow for feedback to take place.
Correct Answer: concurrent, concurent